Thursday, 30 September 2010

Synopsis: Barry Munday, a suburban wanna-be ladies man, wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater, only to realize that he is missing one of his most prized possessions... his testicles. To make matters worse, Barry learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with. With this being Barry's last chance to ever be a father, Barry reaches out and embraces the journey of parenthood and the onslaught of bumps that face him along the way. Filled with an ensemble of unusual characters, BARRY MUNDAY is the surprisingly heart-warming tale of a guy who finds it took losing his manhood to be a better man.

Synopsis: Paul Conroy is not ready to die. But when he wakes up 6 feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are maddeningly limited. Poor reception, a rapidly draining battery, and a dwindling oxygen supply become his worst enemies in a tightly confined race against time- fighting panic, despair and delirium, Paul has only 90 minutes to be rescued before his worst nightmare comes true.

Synopsis: Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world, Holly and Messer are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find some common ground while living under one roof.

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Title: Let Me InDirected by Matt Reeves.Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono, Elias Koteas.Synopsis: Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens's age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.

When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby's father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen's efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she's hiding an unthinkable secret.

The gifted cast of Let Me In takes audiences straight to the troubled heart of adolescent longing and loneliness in an astonishing coming-of-age story based on the best-selling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name.

Title: Case 39Directed by Christian Alvart.Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Callum Keith Rennie.Synopsis: In Case 39, family services social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) thinks she has seen it all... until she meets 10-year old Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland) and the child's cruel and dangerous parents. Her worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm Lily, their only daughter. Frightened for her life, Emily enlists the help of Detective Mike Barron (Ian McShane) and takes Lily in while she continues the search for the perfect foster family. Just as it seems as though Lily is on her way to a more loving home, under the guidance of Emily and psychiatrist (Bradley Cooper), dark forces surrounding this young girl come to light and, little do they know, their attempts to protect her will only bring on greater horror…

Title: The Social NetworkDirected by David Fincher.Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons, Armie Hammer.Synopsis: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrpreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

Sunday, 26 September 2010

The Society of Young Publishers and Friends is running an interesting event. Here you have the information.

Company; The Society of Young Publishers and FriendsName: From cover to cover: the importance of design in publishingDate: Tuestday, 28th of September · 18:30 - 21:30Place: Women's Library, London Metropolitan UniversityOld Castle Street,London, United Kingdom

About the event: Don't judge a book by its cover? Whoever came up with that proverb clearly didn’t realise quite how influential a striking cover image and an engaging blurb can be for a potential book buyer.

At our September speaker meeting we’ll be asking a panel of industry experts to share their thoughts on what makes a book cover successful.

James Spackman, Sales and Marketing Director at Hodder & Stoughton, has kindly agreed to re-visit th ...e topic of his talk at this year’s Bookseller Cover Design conference and explain to us the importance of a good blurb.

Tony Davis, Design Director at Art Meets Matter (best known for their iconic Penguin merchandise), will be talking about design more generally and the way that words and images interact both on and off the page.

Together we’ll analyse some of the biggest books from the last decade and then look to the future, questioning whether the emergence of ebooks renders cover designs unnecessary or whether we always really will judge a book by its cover.

Join us on 29th September from 6.30pm at the Women’s Library in London Metropolitan University, E1 7NT, or for drinks afterwards at B@1 Spitalfields, E1 6AN.

Thursday, 23 September 2010

I have recently received a newsletter from Ken Follett telling me about his new book Fall of Giants and the mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. Next week Fall of Giants will be released, so I think it would be nice for you to know some official piece of news.

Information from the mail I received:

In Fall of Giants I follow the destinies of five interrelated families – one American, one Russian, one German, one English and one Welsh – through the earth-shaking events of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It will be available in hardcover, audiobook and several e-book formats.

Fall of Giants is the first novel in my Century trilogy. The second book, due to be published in 2012, will feature the lives of the children of the characters who appear in La caída de los gigantes during the Great Depression and the Second World War. The third book, due out in 2014, will be set in the Cold War and will be about the grandchildren of the original characters.

Information taken from his web:

Fall of Giants is a magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in the Century trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families – American, German, Russian, English and Welsh – as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage,

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man’s world in the Welsh mining pits…Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House…two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription and revolution…Billy’s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London….

These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.

As always with Ken, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.

In future volumes of the Century trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves – and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Ken brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

I can't update as much as I want this blog. I have a lot of work to do and I just have time to post on El bolso amarillo. That's why I suggest you to follow me on Twitter. I post often in this social network. You will konw pieces of news from my blogs and other interesting news.

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Steve Carrell has a role in the film Dinner For Schmucks, a remake of a French film.

Synopsis:

Rudd stars as Tim, a financial analyst with his eye on a big promotion. Once he's called into the boss's office after a knock out presentation that promotion is within his reach as he's invited to an exclusive dinner party at which the guests are required to invite the biggest idiot they can find. As luck would have it Tim runs over Barry (Carell) with his Porsche as Barry is rescuing a dead mouse to add to his collection. Tim sees it as a "sign from God" and invites Barry as his guest. The rest pretty much writes itself.

The French has already been a blockbuster in France and Spain. Besides, it has also been performed as a theater play. I didn't enjoy the French film but I guess I am not the target. I think this new movie can get to more people.

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